Festo Group

Festo is a leading world-wide supplier of automation technology and equipment and solution provider for industrial education. As a globally-oriented and independent family company with its headquarters in Esslingen, Germany, it has become the performance leader in its industry over the last 50 years, thanks to its innovations and problem-solving competence in all aspects of factory and process automation as well as its unique range of industrial training and education programs.

Today, the company provides pneumatic and electric drive technology for over 300,000 customers in 200 industries world-wide both for factory and process automation as well as cutting-edge training solutions. The Festo Group achieved sales revenues € 2,45 billion in its fiscal year 2014 and with 17,800 employees is represented world-wide in 250 locations.